Planning Ancillary: Pitch for Digipak

Costume, Hair,makeup?

Reason Behind Locations

Do's and Dont's

Magazine Advert Mock

Mock magazine advert mock 

As I've stated earlier, I did use use the same font and background theme for my magazine advert as well. I included the album songs, website of artist, artist name, album name as I was inspired by Jessie J's album magazine advert online. he layout of text is also similar to Jessie J's magazine advert as well. 

Magazine Advert Ideas, Inspirations

Album Cover Mock

 Album cover advert mock. 

I decided to use the background theme from the music video (chorus scene). I will also be using the same theme and font style when creating the mock for my magazine advert as well. This font is suitable for my digipack as a similar font was used in Katy B's album. 

 According to the research I've done, I've decided to include; barcode, company details, track list, artist name, artist website. These are the main important features that I should be including in my digipack album cover.

Inspirations For Digi Pack

Font, Colours, Layout Design For Digi Pack Album Cover

How Did The Screening Go?

Cinema Screening went amazingly well! Not only I had so much fun watching my peers' music videos, I also had so much fun and felt honored when my music video was on the big screen. I felt very proud and pleased about all the positive comments and feedback I have received at the end of the screening.

I asked some of my peers for some feed back and their opinions on my music videos. I asked them my questions: What do you think went well and what things could be improved?, Do you think the music video appeals to the target audience? and finally, would you agree this music video is a representation of a Dubstep genre?

For the first question, my  peers said that they liked the editing, costume changes and the locations we used to film in an they couldn't think of anything to improve on. For the second question, they stated that they certainly agree that my music video appeal to teens and older people and it also presents the dub-step genre very well, especially the editing aspect as well as my performance (dancing scenes).

Planning Ancillary: Mock Digipak

Opinions On Cinema Screening Tommorow

Tomorrow is officially the day that our effort and our production of a music video is going to be screened on The Screen On The Green cinema at 9:45! We're super excited and looking forward to watch the music video produced by our group on a huge screen. We are slightly nervous because everybody is going to be watching however we did the best we could and hope everyone enjoys it as much as we did creating the video!

We also aim to interview and asking our peers questions about our music video such as; What do you think went well and what things could be improved?, Do you think the music video appeals to our target audience? and Would you agree this music video is a good representation of a Dubstep genre?

Researching Ancillary: Practice at making a digipak

First Attempt, Creating A Digi pack Album Cover

Production: Brief audience feedback from cinema screening

Below I have received brief feedback from a fellow audience member who expresses how she felt about my music video:

Analysis of 3 album covers and adverts

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Researching Ancillary: Analysis of 3 digipaks and advertisements

Analysis Of 3 Digi Pack Magazine Adverts

Anlysis Of 3 Digipack Albums

Ancillary Texts: In Today's Lesson...

As apart of our introduction to a digipak, our teacher handed out a mixture of albums to everybody and discussed the most common elements that appeared on each album cover. For an example, the colour palette would usually consist of a maximum of 3 or 4 colours or 2 different types of fonts. 

We also analysed the smaller elements such as barcodes, graphics, pull out booklets and the panels which we MUST include when creating our own digipak.

This mini task helped us get a clear insight as to what a digipack and advert consists of and HOW we should consider each element carefully when it comes to creating our final product.

Ancillary: what is a digipak?

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Ancillary Texts - What Is A Digipack?

Researching Ancillary: Introduction to ancillary

Editing finished!

The editing for the music video was finished 3 hours before the deadline which was good, which was a significant improvement as last year my previous group finished 2 minutes before the deadline so it was very rushed. Overall, editing has been good but frustrating and tedious at times. What was frustrating was

Wrapping Up Production And Planning Blogs!

Planning, Production, Editing and Filming were all great and we've had a lot of fun during filming despite minor issues such as Gizem K feeling embarrassed to perform in front of the camera and bad weather on our re-shoot day however we've got over that very quickly, as a group we have used a variety of apps, images, gifs, embedded videos and many more technologies to make blogs much more visually interesting.

The best part of the Planning and Production blogging was the researching and editing. Researching music videos based around the Dub-step genre, theories from Andrew Goodwin, Laura Mulvey, Carol Vernallis were all interesting as we've learnt many important things got to do with music videos that we've never known nor concentrated on before.

Now, it's getting near to the dead line of editing our music video as well as the production and planning blogging tasks. We all believe that our blogging work is very successful and much more improved visually and analytically from last years blogging. Our aim is to sustain our success and produce better work in the: researching ancillary production, planning and producing ancillary work sections as well as completing the evaluation questions.

Cinema Date Announcement!

Production: Final outcome for music video

Evaluation Question 2 Ideas

Feedback For Blog Progress

Yesterday, my teacher and myself had a glimpse of how I was doing so far. Her comments were mostly all positive.

1. She made a comment on the successful use of different technologies I used to present my blogs, I tried to use as many apps and technologies to present my work in the best way.

2. She also commented on the neat layout of my blogs which made me happy and aware that Ii was doing the right thing!

3. She also gave a 17/20 for just checking over my blogs although it wasn't examined in a detailed way, I wanted to find out how I got on over the past months.

4. However, she also suggested that I get rid of any unfinished blogs and empty blogs because it didn't make my blog look professional and made it look un-finished.

So, I decided to delete the few blogs from the past that either weren't finished or the blogs that were incomplete.

Production: Skills development

What We Did In Yesterday's Lesson + Teacher Feadback

Ideas for question 3 of evaluation

Reflection on progress: Dec 3rd, 2014

Ideas for question 2 of evaluation

Editing: 2 days to go until deadline

How Are Things Going 3 Days Until The Deadline?

 

 

So far, editing is going okay however, I feel a little worried that my group are slightly behind as we had to start from scratch as things were out of order and getting confusing and so we  had to re- film, 3 weeks ago we decided to delete what was edited and start a fresh new page. In the mean time, our class members therefore progressed and some people are even finished at this stage. No worries! We will get through this as we are working very hard to keep up and make sure everything is perfect such as our bridge shots, chorus etc. by taking our teacher's comments into consideration carefully I believe we will finish just on time or even before working at this rate.

Production: Behind The Scenes

Above I have created a slideshow of 'behind the scenes' image from our editing sessions.

Throughout the past few weeks, the process of editing our music video has been happening which challenged my group & I's creative and technical skills.

I personally feel the beginning was the hardest due to our experience being very minimal, as we only had knowledge of editing via final cut pro from the AS year. The most challenging element so far is gathering 'base tracks' together as we were very limited with the amount of clips we have. 

The situation would likely to be that many clips were shorter than the rest or the footage would appear out of focus but we are working together to sort these issues out.

As of now, I am very confident about how far our music video has come throughout the editing process and we will continue to add effects/transitions that will bring everything together successfully.

Production: Ideas for evaluation:- Question 4

Reflection On Progress Blog

Analysis Of Dubstep Music

Ideas For Evaluation Question 4

Ideas For Evaluation Question 3

Production: Ideas for evaluation:- Questions 3